Becks89

I will look into the whole "under review" process more carefully. It seems like it really changes from program to program. About the other questions, no, there were no grad students working with me, we were a very small team doing a monumental amount of work, 3 advanced undergrad students (including me) and about 4 sophomores who were volunteering for one of the projects. He was the only person in charge, I never even met his boss.

No authorship whatsoever, that's why this is so frustrating. If I do publish it will be with another professor on another subject. That project went completely down the drain, I'm certain he won't acknowledge the work of the team did during data recollection and codification.

The statement of purpose is another matter that I'm a little concerned about, how do I write about all this mess? Do I limit myself to pointing out the good experience and not mention how it ended? What if it comes down to being asked about it on an interview? I know I'm getting ahead of myself, but I'm just completely panicky about this

Great pointers! I think it might be worth it to try a publication, but I'll worry about that after I'm done with the GRE (2 weeks to go!). Some of the programs I'm applying to clearly state that I shouldn't write "under review" on the CV I send, I has to be accepted. But I wasn't aware that the timetables could be that short. And I hadn't really thought of asking other recommenders to mention my work, thanks for the peace of mind!

Thanks for the feedback. I've actually spoken to one of my teachers, she says I should at least try and speak with my old boss, given that we had a spoken agreement that I would publish with him this year and that he would give me an LOR. I honestly don't want to go down that path, I don't want to approach him, I seems like too much stress and pain that probably wont reap any rewards whatsoever. I do have other options for LORs, none of them would emphasize my research experience though. I've been a TA and worked a lot on my school's psychology student's association, so I made a lot of meaningful connections that way. I'm just afraid that my experience won't hold true :/

Hi everyone! I'm hoping you might have a few suggestions to my conundrum. For the last year and a half I've been working as an undergrad research assistant. Everything was going great, until my boss/self appointed "mentor" started to get sloppy in his work. As a result of that the whole research team started having trouble with meeting deadlines and getting the overall work done. At the end of 2012, we were told that our job was done. In that year and a half I worked as an assistant in 3 different projects, none of which are getting published until mid 2013. My boss basically let me know in a very passive aggressive way (stopped sharing files with me on dropbox, unfriended me on facebook, completely cut communication) that he wants nothing to do with me. He is clearly throwing a temper tantrum, as he did many times while we worked together. But now, I'm left with research and consultation experience and no way to prove it, I have no publications and no LOR. My first instinct was to let it go and move on, and focus on the GRE and on getting another publication independently. But I still think my research experience is one of my strongest suits for getting into grad school. I have a 3.0 GPA, I'm taking the GRE on late feb, I'm working on my thesis and application deadlines aren't until december. So should I try to rescue something out of all that work? Should I even put it on my CV? Is it worth anything without proof? I'm totally at a loss on what to do here, would really appreciate some feedback! Thanks!